Best Role Ideas?

[chesskid3]

You are

CHESSKID

you may only post "CHESSKID" and votes in thread.
As long as you hold to your post restriction, you are unlynchable. And let's be honest, who would NK you?
You win with the town.

Wrong thread.

CHESSKID

[Mute]

-Illusionist / Role-mimic
--Target another player at night, become that role starting the following day. Until the player you are copying dies, you are that role, unable to change into another person's role. (If the mimic's target is killed the same night as the mimic mimics that player, the mimic stays a mimic.) Win with town.
(If the mimic copies a mafia goon, they obtain a killing ability for as long as that goon lives. If they target a scum PR, they gain only the scum player's power, and not a killing ability. If, while mimicking a mafia member, the mimic is investigated by a sane-cop, the mimic shall return a guilty result.)


._. Hope this is in the right thread.

[Meransiel]

I like balancing OP roles.

You are a

Vigilant Gun Owner

. Every night, choose 1 other player. If he targets you that night, kill him.

[Cobblerfone]

I feel the protection ability needs some tweaking, but besides that I like this role:

Player:XXXX is a

Stalking Serial Killer

. You are obsessed with Vanilla Townie:YYYY. If Vanilla Townie:YYYY dies you will die of a broken heart.

Win Condition:

You win when all players except you and Vanilla Townie:YYYY are dead.

Night Abilities:

You may use

one

of your abilities every night.

• * Kill:
  You may kill one player each night.
  
  * Protect:
  You may forgo your kill to protect Vanilla Townie:YYYY and yourself. You may not protect two nights in a row.

[malpascp]

^^awesome

[theplague42]

I like balancing OP roles.

You are a

Vigilant Gun Owner

. Every night, choose 1 other player. If he targets you that night, kill him.

This is a stupid question, but what's OP?

[TheButtonmen]

Meransiel is saying paranoid gun owners are overpowered.

[theplague42]

Ah ok.

They're powerful, but I don't think they're overpowered unless the mafia has no compensating roles. Only picking one player seems a little underpowered, IMO. Maybe change it so that the PGO dies as well?

[gandalf5166]

Plague, that's the way it's always been. PGOs are still affected by any actions that target them.

[theplague42]

Oh yeah you're right. I forgot that PGO died as well...

[Maruchan]

You are

The All-knowing Impotent

You know the names of all anti-town players. You may not vote, you win with the town.

I was totally thinking of a role like this of my own the other day while on the toilet. i was going to cal lit an Oracle, and they know the roles of every player, and N0 they have to pick an alignment to win with, and they can not vote nor say what anyones role is.

[Seacore]

That's a terrible role.

D1
Bob: Guys, I can't vote, you should totally vote for A, B, C and D. Trust me
Other players: Bullshit, let's kill him for lying! Yeah!
Bob dies
Bob flips "the all knowing impotent"

D2
Somebody : "Crap he was right! lets kill all those people he said to kill"
Town wins

[Krazy]

Here's something I made for a theme game I'm working on.

CRAZED GUNMAKER
The Crazed Gunmaker can only give out one gun a night, and can only give one of each type of gun every three nights.

-Vigilante Gun—give someone a gun that can be used to kill someone the next night.
-Explosive Gun—give someone a gun that will kill the person who wields it, if they fire it.
-Toy Gun—give someone a gun that does nothing. But it looks real! Using it counts as an exclusive night action.
No one can identify one type of gun from another once it is given.

[Flavour Analysis]

That's a terrible role.

D1
Bob: Guys, I can't vote, you should totally vote for A, B, C and D. Trust me
Other players: Bullshit, let's kill him for lying! Yeah!
Bob dies
Bob flips "the all knowing impotent"

D2
Somebody : "Crap he was right! lets kill all those people he said to kill"
Town wins

Purposely flip him as "Voiceless townie" ;o

[Seacore]

Yay. So instead we have a useless role that accomplishes nothing. Which I suppose is a step up from a role that breaks the game.

Or we could make him a townie. With no PR.

[Dr_Demento]

I experimented with something similar to the all-knowing impotent in a chat mafia game I designed. I tried balancing it by making it a survivor. The balancing wasn't quite right due to other particulars in the game, but with a little tweaking it becomes a very interesting role.

Self-Aligned Omniscesent Survivor (Wins when he is the only one left, knows what everybody elses roles are)

As you can see, this game wasn't very flavorful. I also came up with some more flavor driven concepts.

You are the

Town Aligned Troop Leader

, during each day, you may choose to invite any number of people to join you at the campfire by PMing their names to the mod. At the end of the day, the list of people you invited will be posted for all to see. During the night, anyone who is not part of your Campfire who targets someone within the campfire will be seen targeting that person by all members of the campfire as you stand guard. However, players within the campfire targeting other players inside the campfire or outside the campfire will not be seen via this role. You must always attend the campfire.

Mod notes: Invitations are mandatory, mostly to avoid extended twilight periods.

[timothy444]

You are

Action Swapper

Each night, you can pick two people other than yourself. Those two people will have the night actions swapped around.

Example:
Person A is a Doctor attempting to protect Person C and Person B is a Mafia Scum performing a kill on Person D. If the Role Change decides to pick Person A and Person B then their night actions will be swapped making Person A kill Person C and Person B protect Person D.

[theamatuer]

so thats a scum role right?
I came up with this in half a minute
you are a

chaincop

you may PM one person to track them.
You do not know anything until to PM the mod again, in which you get a post that gives a list of all people who have done an action or have an action done by this person in no particular order. You also get a list of roles that belong to the people in the group, but you do not know who is who. You win with the town.

[animorpherv1]

You are

Action Swapper

Each night, you can pick two people other than yourself. Those two people will have the night actions swapped around.

Example:
Person A is a Doctor attempting to protect Person C and Person B is a Mafia Scum performing a kill on Person D. If the Role Change decides to pick Person A and Person B then their night actions will be swapped making Person A kill Person C and Person B protect Person D.

a bit late...

[Empking]

You are

Action Swapper

Each night, you can pick two people other than yourself. Those two people will have the night actions swapped around.

Example:
Person A is a Doctor attempting to protect Person C and Person B is a Mafia Scum performing a kill on Person D. If the Role Change decides to pick Person A and Person B then their night actions will be swapped making Person A kill Person C and Person B protect Person D.

a bit late...

You read that wrong.

[timothy444]

You are

Action Swapper

Each night, you can pick two people other than yourself. Those two people will have the night actions swapped around.

Example:
Person A is a Doctor attempting to protect Person C and Person B is a Mafia Scum performing a kill on Person D. If the Role Change decides to pick Person A and Person B then their night actions will be swapped making Person A kill Person C and Person B protect Person D.

a bit late...

You swap the night actions, not the two players. It could also be any alignment.

[theamatuer]

Yeah, but the ability itself is predominately scum-sided. Even if you switch two actions, it is still the same effect. Also, the other effect that it screws up trackers and cop reads, causing townies to be read as scum and lynched, and scum to be read as pro- town.

[Lord]

I wonder how something like this would fare...

You are a

Clue Seeker

. Every night, you may target 1 other player. If, during that night, the target visits someone else (not you), you will learn his role and alignment. However, if the target visits you, or doesn't visit anyone, something else happens:

If your target is not mafia, he will receive this PM from the mod: "after last night's events, you have reasons to believe that [your name] is aligned to the mafia"
If your target is mafia, you die.

You win with the town.


Would probably work badly in a game with more than 2-3 VT, however...

[Maruchan]

That's a terrible role.

D1
Bob: Guys, I can't vote, you should totally vote for A, B, C and D. Trust me
Other players: Bullshit, let's kill him for lying! Yeah!
Bob dies
Bob flips "the all knowing impotent"

D2
Somebody : "Crap he was right! lets kill all those people he said to kill"
Town wins

toss i na post restriction on him.

[Ythan]

To make it more terrible?